More than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50C

[muriel_volestrangler]

At least 323 of those who died were Egyptians, most of them succumbing to heat-related illnesses, the two Arab diplomats coordinating their countries’ responses told AFP.

“All of them [the Egyptians] died because of heat” except for one who sustained fatal injuries during a minor crowd crush, one of the diplomats said, adding that the total figure came from the hospital morgue in the Al-Muaisem neighbourhood of Mecca.

At least 60 Jordanians have died, the diplomats said, up from an official tally of 41 given earlier on Tuesday by Amman.

The new deaths bring the total reported so far by multiple countries to 577, according to an AFP tally.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/18/hundreds-of-hajj-pilgrims-die-in-mecca-from-heat-related-illness

Saudi state TV said temperatures rose on Monday as high as 51.8 degrees Celsius (125.2 Fahrenheit) in the shade at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/soaring-temperatures-scorch-pilgrims-haj-saudi-arabia-2024-06-18/

[lastlib]

1. Religion and heatstroke make a bad mix.....

Methinks it's kinda dumb to want to serve a sky-daddy that blindly.......OMMV......

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Lol you think god resides in the sky

[lastlib]

4. No, but its followers do.

Personally, I'm more of a Spinozan.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Now would that be considered suicide?

[erronis]

5. I wish all xians would also travel to Death Valley to celebrate their loving/caring lord.

I'd keep this up with all of these murderous religions. Modi in India has perverted a usually peaceful one into a killing machine. And we all know how Islam has been perverted to serve power.

[Voltaire2]

6. God Swill.

[edhopper]

7. Why did Mohammed

schedule this in the middle of the Summer?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The Islamic calendar is lunar, so the time of (solar) year moves

It's 10 or 11 days earlier each year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj#Timing_of_Hajj

[edhopper]

9. Did not know that

the Hebrew calendar is also lunar, but the holiday dates are kept withing a month's period each year.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. I believe the Hebrew calendar is technically called "lunisolar"

since it mixed Moon and Sun periods, over time.